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Blue Cross Acts to Ease Its Rules On the Use of Municipal Hospitals; BLUE CROSS TO WIDEN DOCTOR-PAY POLICY

By RONALD SULLIVAN ();

January 12, 1978,

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Reversing a longstanding policy, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Greater New York said yesterday that it intended to start paying private physicians when they treated patients in the city's municipal hospitals.

January 12, 1978

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